What's the maximum wind speed (operational and survival)? Overseas specs often fail to take into account a country situated in the roaring forties. I've seen 100kph limits, which means the dish blows out of alignment rather a lot in NZ.

What's the maximum wind speed (operational and survival)? Overseas specs often fail to take into account a country situated in the roaring forties. I've seen 100kph limits, which means the dish blows out of alignment rather a lot in NZ.

My 90cm dish I had to put 3x stabiliser arms on to stop it from flexing in the windAlso stopped it vibrating, I put it against a massive bridge beam holding the eave over deck up, not sure how it would go on the roof with even more wind120cm is getting into serious dish some thought needed to keep it pointing in right direction

For remote stations up past that burned stump this would be ideal and $1k install fee would be reasonable as it can be quite a trek into some places for a techieIn/near the City I can see this being less value

Good on them for giving remote customers a choice to get DSL speed broadband to the remote masses.

What size dish is needed ?

Actually for what is involved I thought the install fee is quite reasonable.

You can not compare the old ihug system to this ( or farmside ) Ihug was using your phone line to send info to their servers and the return was by satellite, this is bidirectional satellite and does not use a cheap LNB, the satellite uplink feedhorn used to be thousands of dollars as they run at about 15GHz they are also prone to frequency drift, the early ones were cooled by liquid nitrogen to stop that but electronics have come a long way since then.

I would put money that the kit is worth over 2k if you bought it outright, that is why they want you to send the router back when you stop their service.

Also this is not targeting city dwellers ( but have seen satellite uplinks on banks and police stations ) this is ideal for rural users.

The installer will have to drive an hour or two each way and while the driving is nice it is not productive.

Hey mate, if you want to PM me some more in depth details, if it all sounds kosher every now and then we still get people requesting satellite service off of us, which we've dropped - always good to know some more names to drop, besides wireless nation.

Curious about the choice of 1mbit as the upload speed. Is that a hardware limitation (same as ADSL). Or is it a provisioning decision? As that upload can be quite limiting for people who create content, instead of only consuming content.

I realize that you have the build your own plan option. But put some faster upload plans on your website as well. And providing faster upload speeds can reduce your tech support costs. As you are less likely to get people complaining "the internet is not working / extremely slow" Where the problem is icloud/ Dropbox/ Google photos /some other cloud storage syncing in the background. And using all of the upload bandwidth.

Aredwood: Curious about the choice of 1mbit as the upload speed. Is that a hardware limitation (same as ADSL). Or is it a provisioning decision? As that upload can be quite limiting for people who create content, instead of only consuming content.

I realize that you have the build your own plan option. But put some faster upload plans on your website as well. And providing faster upload speeds can reduce your tech support costs. As you are less likely to get people complaining "the internet is not working / extremely slow" Where the problem is icloud/ Dropbox/ Google photos /some other cloud storage syncing in the background. And using all of the upload bandwidth.

Good question, and although there are some hardware limitations to work within, this is mostly a provisioning decision. The underlying issue is whether you can ever achieve the speed that providers like ourselves talk about. We believed it was better to publish a slightly lower return speed but make sure that users are actually regularly able to hit that speed. This was a decision we made after much research of the NZ satellite broadband market and the experience/pain of the users within it.

It's something we will be revisiting though on a continuous basis. We also have a new satellite coming online next year which will enable us to change our basic packages to be more along the lines of a 20/5 forward/return service.

Not a bad set up and reasonable plan pricing as far as satellite goes. Ping wont be great but that comes with geostationary orbit I guess. Be interesting to see how well the new sat runs when it gets up and running.